Salinger is one my favorite authors. Very happy to see this coming up. I have yet to finish Nine Stories as of yet. CITR and Franny and Zooey were fantastic, though. But, as everyone else, I read them in high school (not for required reading though). I was that kid that read the controversial stuff.
"The consolations of philosophy and the beauties of science; these things are infinitely more awe-inspiring and regenerating and majestic than any invocation of the burning bush or doctrine." - Christopher Hitchens